Overview
Cloud computing delivers the ability to provision resources on
demand to your users. Cloud computing is enabling a major transformation in
which you can turn your datacenter into an IT-as-a-Service platform. This means
you can deliver applications to your end users faster than ever, without
investing in new infrastructure, training new personnel, or licensing new
software. Cloud computing also helps your organization compete in new markets
and communicate with customers in new ways. You can drive down the costs of
doing business and increase your ability to adapt to changing market
conditions.
Because cloud computing changes the way your organization
consumes IT, you can change the role of IT in your organization and the way
your team thinks about and delivers business success.
Whether in your datacenter, with a service provider, or from
Microsoft’s datacenters, Microsoft provides the choice, flexibility, and
control to adopt cloud computing in whichever way best meets your unique
business needs; whether that be through a private cloud, a public cloud, or a
combination of the two.
Microsoft provides the following cloud computing offerings:
Private Cloud
Microsoft private cloud solutions give you the flexibility
and control to harness the power of the cloud on your terms. A Microsoft
private cloud provides end to end service management giving you deep insight
about your applications and workloads so you focus more attention on delivering
business value. And with your choice of a hosted, pre-configured,
or custom offering, you have the power to find the
private cloud solution that fits your unique business needs.
Public Cloud
Windows Azure is the cloud platform that empowers you to develop
and run applications with unbounded scalability and ease-of-use. With this
flexible platform you can easily scale up or down to meet the demands of your
business. With the pay-for-use business model, you don’t waste money on
services you won’t use. And Windows Azure allows your developers to develop and
run applications quickly, while leveraging current skills to develop
applications with .NET, PHP, or Java.
Benefits
The future of the cloud is going to be a hybrid combination of
public and private cloud, not one or the other. There will be times when you
want to run a workload in a private cloud, then move it up to a public cloud,
and later move it back again to your private cloud. We see a Microsoft private
cloud as the first step towards building a cloud that allows you to go into the
public cloud, which is what we call Windows Azure. With Microsoft, our cloud
offerings are designed so that your private cloud and public cloud work
together.
Cloud computing on your terms
With Microsoft cloud solutions, you remain in full control
whether it is in your datacenter, a partner datacenter, or Microsoft’s
datacenters. Only with Microsoft cloud solutions do you get:
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A common set of
management tools.
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The ability to see all
the applications in your traditional, public, and private cloud environments
from a single console.
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A common set of
identity tools.
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When users log in,
they get access to all the traditional, private, and public cloud services
you’ve given them access to.
·
The ability to develop
applications that run in both the private and public cloud.
A path to the future within your reach today
Microsoft cloud computing doesn’t mean starting over from square
one. You can leverage the familiar and consistent experience of Microsoft’s
products in the cloud, using existing IT skillsets and technology you already
have, while taking advantage of new value the cloud environment provides. The
investments you make today will work for you in the future as cloud computing
evolves.
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